Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet,

Could you please fix it for me to have a WvW that has some lasting interest.

Excuse the sad intro but I’m hoping to grab Anet attention.

The basics of what is wrong with wvw are as such and need “desperate” attention before you lose your players in their droves.

Firstly the maps, now don’t get me wrong there are some great features and I can even forgive the fact you have copy/pasted the borders, but you should never be able to attack Reds main Keep from SM on Eternal, I know this goes the other way aswell and that you can treb back. But there is a reason reds are reds. They are bottom seed. Likely less populated in WvW and will therefore likely lose, without having to constantly defend against an issue that we all know generally requires heavy numbers when SM is defended properly to counter. This issue is apparent on other maps aswell, being able to treb bay from Garrison and Briar, but no way to hit Hills in a similar fashion? Is this balance?

Second biggest issue is the siege damage levels to buildings, this currently ends a siege on even a fortified tower in minutes, literally…. Guilds are very good at dropping 4-5 Superior catapults and blasting into a tower in no time, or of course the timewarped golem rush, that can be in most places done well in seconds…. Siege damage to buildings needs dropping MASSIVELY, this siege you speak of isn’t a siege, it’s a merry-go-round and it’s making people sick.

Thridly is everyones favourite… Culling… If you can’t fix culling then remove the AOE limit. I’m less likely to have a turtle of 40 players show on my screen 5 seconds after I die if they are encouraged not to turtle/zerg in the first instance. This again would encourage far more expansive gameplay than the current “you have the most, you win” game strategies that are employed right now. Sure there should be Zerg fights, but it should be once or twice a day when a offense on SM is apparent. Not EVERY camp, EVERY tower, EVERY Keep, EVERY Doly gets a Zerg on them.

These are my top 3, what are yours?

P.S There is another game coming out this year Anet that has a very similar feature to WvW in it. Without fast action to sort your WvW out then you will lose ALL the big guilds and most of the players with an interest in this form of combat to said game. Be a shame to let such a great idea goto waste.

Been a good fun match so far, in fact I’ve enjoyed some of the skirmishes more this week than I have for weeks.
Had an awesome 3 way fight in vale on AG’s border this evening, must have been 10-15 players from each side pushing for it, GH holed up inside and FS trying their damnedest not to let us recap it from GH. This led to an hour long backwards and forwards fight for vale. Most entertaining, only thing that does concern me is the number of D/D eles being fielded by ALL sides.
WvW is starting to look like eles, thieves and a couple of cc warriors/guardians and a token mesmer is now favourites all round. Time to diversify me feels =)

Right I’m sorry Anet but your player caps on maps IS bugged.

Aurora Glade a fairly happy tier 5 slowly working towards tier 4 server (with only ever a queue at reset) has descended into 2-8 hour queues on ALL borders.

When on any of these borders it is highly evident that there is not more than another 40-50 players of our side in the zone.

Please, please, please stop telling us this is due to people moving. Aurora Glade has received 1 new guild of note in the last 7-14 days who field upto 20 members in WvW. This is no where near enough to take a server with NO queues to a server with a queue on EVERY border. There is something fundamentally wrong or you have tinkered with player limits intentionally or unintentionally… Either way it needs fixing and not crummy stats analysing.

Well again we have had some awesome fights, one in particular on the RoF borderland between all 3 warring factions and just about ALL the big guild names from the week around us. Was an epic fight which I enjoyed massively.

We’d hit RoF on one side and taken most of them down or force a retreat back to bay, while GH was hitting us from behind. So we attack GH and force a retreat only to look over our shoulder and see most of RoF being ressed and ready to hit us again. This process was rinsed and repeated a few times before we went and took Vale and let you 2 fight outside =)

Very enjoyable fighting gentlemen and I wish you much luck in your future matches.

Guys can we take this back to a more pleasant note, before the thread gets locked, again….

Anyway as one sided as the score looks when GH and RoF are at their peak numbers there have been some excellent fights from ALL sides involved. A few in particular will stick in my memory for a long time. This is aside from all the handbags at dawn.

I shall also only point out what has been said above, due to the over inflated score AG will now skip a tier and is currently at the time of writing due to face Gandara and Augury Rock. That will be a tough match and likely to get us face rolled. But I’m fairly used to that in the scores. So it will be a fun match with some amusing tactics involved.

I wish GH and RoF all the best as after our inflated score we may meet again fairly soon….

What a great evening of WvW, has been brilliant seeing all the faces I used to fight alongside all painted in the same matt red.
Been a pleasure fighting you this evening and it truly has injected a new lease of life into WvW for me. Hope it’s done the same for many others on GH and AG.

Good luck Gunnars, I think we may both need a little against RoF this week, that’s a very strong start and they seem to have jumped up the ranks somewhat. A little bird told me a load of tier1 guilds had moved to RoF…

Well I don’t want to sound conspiritorial or anything, but is there an agreement between DL and UW?
The last 3 days the DL zerg has battered our homelands having capped the whole BL at least 3 times today. This is fine and I more than accept a server with greater numbers as DL will win, but here’s the thing. The score difference between GH and UW is minimal compared to DL’s score. Yet DL has not invaded the UW borderland at all during the quieter hours. I only see them invade when there really is nothing left to take, even then they soon leave UW alone and come back for GH. Even to the point of trying to camp all the GH spawns on ALL maps.

Again I also know the man in second place is the beating boy, as both people want to beat you. But the score difference between us and UW is tiny… This again makes me think you have a little agreement going on between some of the bigger guilds.

What an awesome night…
After wiping the UNTY portal bomb several times at Titans we finally made a small mistake and paid for it.
Our numbers dropped and the fight for Vale was awesome, UNTY and friends were trying to cap the camp for a good hour.
After this we started the protracted siege of briar and after a long drawn out battle bashed the wall in and took the tower.

Great fun all night and props to UNTY for giving as we gave last night.